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Repeat after me: Your NOSE is for breathing, your MOUTH is for eating.

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Great advice. I'll just pass it on to my autoimmune disorder to unclog my sinuses. /s

what disorder is this ? overproduction of mucus ? or inflammed tissue blocking air flow ?

The first. If you have some advice on this, I'll be extremely glad to follow up on it!

I wish, I think I developed a form of this. For a year or so I've been having huge episodes of nasal problems.

    - large amount of mucus (I stopped counting tissue after the 1000 mark [0])
    - strange consistency of mucus (thicker, and glue like)
    - very narrowed nasal cavity

I've been allergic half my life, so nose issues are not new, but not of that nature and that scale. And your comment reminded me of this.. I wonder if I took something that altered my body immune response (or maybe my brain just lost it)

[0] it got to a point where I was physically exhausted from sneezing, abdominal cramps and nausea.. "surprising" to say the least

hi again,

this video about vitamin D physiology popped on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBZM1n_uDE

apparently it's an important control molecule for the immune system

Hey, Thanks for following up! My Vitamin D level is deficient. I want to somehow address this as well, let's see what effect it has.

I'm really intrigued about who told you this or how you (or they) determined this knowledge? In your society while growing up where people aware of how others were breathing and instructed them?

Is this knowledge more like right handedness vs left handedness, scrunch vs fold, sit or squat, not sleeping with fans or more like not drinking white wine with red meat?

Except for when you’re performing any hard aerobic exercise, at which point you have to breathe through your mouth.

...and when you're intubated with an NG tube.

We are not designed for hard aerobic exercise.

What makes you believe that a species that evolved from persistence hunters is “not designed” for hard aerobic exercise?

Isn't the idea behind persistence hunting that it's long-term, low effort aerobic exercise? That is, our ancestors were good at maintaining low-speed pursuit for long distances, but not so great at sprinting after prey.

Sprinting is anaerobic.

And yet we’re remarkably good at it

Someone more athletic or fitter than you wouldn’t mouth breath at the level of activity you mouth breath at. Their capacity is higher.

Hard aerobic exercise is relative, clearly.

So? Hard aerobic exercise is hard. A fitter person will just be faster.

well I just meant it could be an area for improvement. It is possible to work your way to being more capable with just nasal breathing. Or sometimes you just have to be conscious you are mouth breathing and you'll be able to revert to nasal breathing. I didn't say you should never mouth breathe or somehow you are inferior to a super athlete.

That’s some solid advice right there.

Also, no jamming jam into the ear, ya hear?

Now, apart from the fun rendition (“mouth breathers are dumb”), this gives an interesting explanation on why I feel dumb when I’m congested.

And when breathing through your nose, remember not to sniff petrol from a can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yeBmSFkC4

You’re just trying to take all the fun away.

Anyway, is glue still ok?

Try having a bad asthma attack, and then get back to us :(

But where do we speak out of?

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